As Ms. Payne stated, we have to manage our small sea port like a business. What is so exhausting is that we begin by volunteering our time and after having spent a considerable amount of time drawing up a project, when we ask for the funding the answer is always the same: there is no money, the application is being turned down. And so we start over, and submit another project.
The hours spent on volunteering with no end result are enough to exhaust those who are volunteering. There is never anything to show for it. We have to deal with managing our own small business.